Disney Redemption
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We were supposed to be in DisneyWorld the week after Jason died.
Jason and I had a mastermind workshop for online marketing and would be in meetings for three days straight.
Coleman was coming on the trip and was going to go to the parks with our medical aide, Jarom.
Everyone was pumped.
Coleman was excited because he was going to go to DisneyWorld and Universal Studios.
He did his research by watching videos of every ride on YouTube for months.
He knew what rides were the fastest and the funnest.
He was ready.
I was excited because Coleman could go to DisneyWorld but I didn’t have to go on any rides.
Jason and we’re really looking forward to our business workshop.
We had been working side-by-side on our new business for the previous year. This was going to be a big weekend for us in our goals to move our business forward.
We hired a mentor.
We bought her mastermind course.
We tuned into all of the pre-workshop Zoom call sessions.
We were completing our homework.
It would culminate in Orlando at the live workshop.
We were excited to be doing it together.
Goals. Plans. Dreams. Purpose. Hope. Partners.
Jason died one week before we were supposed to leave for Orlando.
Our trip was cancelled.
I’ve been hearing from the ten-year-old ever since.
“We should go to DisneyWorld!!!”
I couldn’t face it on my own.
So, when we found out that my awesome sister and her family were going to Disneyland, I asked if we could come along.
My dream come true...we could do Disney but Coleman had his totally fun grown-up cousins...
To ride all the jerky rides with.
To find all the Halloween food with.
To dress up as Spiderverse characters with.
To stay till the park closed with.
This body doesn’t want to keep up with the millennials...or the Coleman.😂
And lucky for me, I didn’t have to!
As I entered Star Wars Land I was flooded with feelings of Jason.
He would have loved that place.
We are children of the 70s and we’re both mesmerized by original Star Wars in the theater when we were kids.
I felt intense joy as we passed by the Millennium Falcon on our way to ride Smuggler’s Run.
He would have loved the life-sized version of his favorite childhood toy.
I laughed out loud when the Stormtroopers talked to Coleman.
He would have worked his way into that conversation.
Every detail was thought of.
The creatures mounted on the walls of the Den of Antiquities, the blue and green milk, the games and dolls and toys from across the galaxy.
He would have known them all.
Disneyland was awesome.
We saw lots of heroes there.
Felt lots of feelings of happiness
Had lots of moments of remembering.
But it never would have happened without Brynne and Ryan...my real superheroes this weekend.